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Uganda: East Africa and Horn of Africa governments must put an end to targeting of human rights defenders
The great thing about a blog site is that you get to make predictions which if you are correct, give you the ability to
point everyone to the archived blog saying "told you so".
The AP headline read “U.S. Military Deaths Reach 2,000 in Iraq” and I shuddered, not because 2,000 of our young men and
women’s lives have been cut short in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) - most of us are already sickened by that fact, but
by the failure ...
PrimeTV Video - Paul Holmes interviews: Jonah Lomu & wife Fiona about his Welsh Rugby transfer before getting up close and personal with Hone Harawira and mum Titewhai.
Also includes a report on New Zealand's big Melbourne Cup hope Xcellent.
Whangarei Tuesday 1st November -- Greenpeace today launched New Zealand's first 'Clean Energy Guide' that ranks
electricity companies according to their current and future impact on the climate, on a simple thermometer-shaped fridge
magnet.
National's Broadcasting spokesperson Georgina Te Heu Heu has accused TVNZ of having abandoned political neutrality
during the election campaign. She told RNZ that "during the election... [TVNZ's] political neutrality... seemed to be
absent."
When is it ever appropriate to get your kit off and sprint down Queen Street in your undies to the screams of hundreds
of supporters?
National Party Leader Don Brash today named Wayne Eagleson, currently Transpower’s general manager, public affairs, as
his new chief of staff.
Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Statement Before the Subcommittee on the Middle
East and Central Asia of the House International Relations Committee Washington, DC October 27, 2005
The situation for Arabs in Israel & Palestine is “far worse” than that of the blacks in what was apartheid South Africa. This was Ronnie Kasrils’ response
to the question of whether Israel could be compared to South Africa during its apartheid ...
When the UN received the recent Mehlis report on the murder of former Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, one suggested
tribunal for a possible prosecution was the International Criminal Court. Rejecting such a proposal, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rica remarked ...
TVNZ would like to announce that this year's season will be the final for the long running and successful Hyundai
Sportscafe programme.
The Society is calling on the new Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Rick Barker, to replace all nine members of the
Film & Literature Board of Review ["the Board”], including the Governor-General's husband Peter Cartwright. Mr Cartwright’s
...
Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey today received a report from the Board of TVNZ explaining the circumstances of the
resignation of CEO Ian Fraser.
Amidst rumors that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is close to indicting White House officials in the Plame leak
case are reports that Scooter Libby was Judith Miller’s source of information. Part One of this series explored Libby’s
“handler,” ...
We bring to the attention of Global Research readers this important commentary by Dr.Joseph Mercola. The fundamental
issue is who owns the intellectual property rights over Tamiflu. The media reports suggest that the Swiss pharmaceutical
company Roche ...
Print Merania Karauria Deafening Silence Robyn Langwell New Zealander of the Year: Doug Flett Tearaway Magazine a) Label
Bashers b) Express Yourself c) Pride and Prejudice Jon Stephenson a) War Zone: a Reporter’s Story b) No End in Sight
"Welcome home,” the Beirut airport official said to me as he stamped the passport that betrays my birthplace. It has
been quarter of a century since I was last in Lebanon. Driving into the capital on the smart new highway, my mind finds
it difficult ...
Maori Party Calls for Immediate Review on Government application of tikanga Maori in Government Policies, Procedures and
Practices
Gay, disabled comedian and social entrepreneur Philip Patston today told delegates at the Public Health Forum’s
symposium on health and human rights in Auckland that he chose to be disabled and gay to help humanity evolve.
This rumour comes to you entirely without warranty, but from a fairly good source. There will be a New Zealand iTunes
store very early next year - perhaps even on January 1, 2006. I'm not sure exactly what the hold-up is, but presumably
negotiations are ...
22: The Letter
Ian Fraser goes before he is pushed. Today Cabinet signs off the government program for the opening of Parliament next
week.
TWO AND A HALF YEARS AND $202 BILLION into the war in Iraq, the United States has at least one significant new asset to
show for it: effective membership, through our control of Iraq's energy policy, in the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting ...
On Friday, after securing a five-count criminal indictment against Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis
“Scooter” Libby, for lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when he knew it in regard to the outing of a covert
CIA agent, ...
“I can confirm that I told the Chairman of TVNZ on Friday that I intended to resign my position as Chief Executive.
Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Remarks at Brookings-Bern Project on Internal
Displacement With National Endowment for Democracy and Church World Service Washington, DC October 26, 2005
27: The Mapp Report
My appointment in respect to Political Correctness will be a fascinating challenge. Everyone rails against it, but no
one has a coherent plan to first stop it, and then roll it back. I have been concerned for some time at the creeping
political correctness ...
TAB: Zabeel Progeny Feature in 2005 Melbourne Cup Champion New Zealand stallion Zabeel – currently the leading sire in
Australia this season - has a very strong hand in the final field for the 2005 $A5 million Emirates Melbourne Cup run
over ...
National's Broadcasting spokeswoman, Georgina te Heuheu, says Steve Maharey can mince his words all he likes, but there
is no denying that Ian Fraser's $300,000 payment for six months worth of "odd jobs" is a golden handshake.
No sooner are indictments being handed down to Scooter Libby, the Chief of Staff of the Vice President of the United
States for lies and coverup of information used deliberately to suppress the fact the Bush Administration had no
‘smoking gun’ to ...
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